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Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Why is Shakespeare Known as The Bard

Why is Shakespeare known as The Bard is explained below in me poem but first know this.

23rd April is the birth date and death date of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.So, the most famous (possibly) Englishman was born and died on St Georges Day, the Patron Saint of England"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” from Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born and diedOn the very same dayWell, he didn’t last very longI hear some of you say

If he really was born and diedOn the very same dayHe couldn’t have managed a sonnetNever mind a 3 act play

Fortunately for us (but not for schoolchildren)There was 52 years in betweenThe first 23rd April was in 1564And the second in 1616

Most of his work was producedIn a 23 year frame of timeNearly 40 plays and 150 odd sonnetsAnd poems that don’t even rhyme

Why is Shakespeare known as the Bard?That's not a title he earnsFor that title belongs to The BardScotland's Robert Burns

Shakespeare is The Bard of AvonThat's the river in his town of birthBard just means poetIt's Welsh, for what it's worth

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I am retired. I now golf, do local history and build websites. There's a writer/publisher in me and I enjoy creating the written published word via the wondrous internet. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
I just wrote that but Oscar Wilde wrote it first